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Sometime After This

by Brian Dunne

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"Sometime After This” is Dunne’s less peel-and-stick wall stencil, more psychedelically transcendent version of “this too shall pass.” It’s a Talking Heads meets Dire Straits encapsulation of Americana, breathing in the general discomfort of existing in this world, and breathing out a sort of unifying force of expansive, expertly layered sonic landscape. It rips off its letterman jacket, seams snapping in a frenzy to dive headfirst after its college friends into a lake at 2am. It waves at you from the horizon line, some unknown point 3 hours away, with a singular suitcase in the backseat and your dad’s half broken film camera riding shotgun. It towels off, guitar radiating around Dunne’s lyrics like a constellation of things that might help your feet stay glued to the Earth, here, now, with all these other people who are just as stupid and alive as you are.

lyrics

In a daydream you had made arrangements for
Pretty flowers laid after the massacre
You awoke in a startling start of death
The holy ghost, the townies, tangled in a total mess

As if Sam Shepard rang the early morning bells
With an email from the grave - "I hope this message finds you well"
If there was ever any lingering doubt
Kid, just look at where we are right now

But on the precipice
Sometime after this
We'll watch the changing tides deride this false self-righteousness
Where the truth is laid
Just up the stairs
I will meet you there

Sweet black-haired burnout out on 2nd avenue
The nation turns its lonely eyes to you
I came here to find forgiveness
I came to risk it all
I came to write my name upon the sacred green room wall

And she said
On the precipice
Sometime after this
We'll hear the music try to fight, divide and conquer this
And when they break for smokes
Right up the stairs
I will meet you there

And after the afterparty, in the pre-dawn hush
We'll find a coffee cart preparing for the morning rush
And if I cease to understand the gift they've given me
Then god have mercy on the soul that doesn't know it's free

'Cause on the precipice
Sometime after this
I may again lose sight of all the lives I could have lived
But where the music plays
Like an anxious prayer
And all the promises we made
Are vanquished in the air
Where the answers lay
I will meet you there

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released December 13, 2022
Produced and mixed by Andrew Sarlo at Pioneer Studios, Brooklyn, NY and Sarlo’s, Los Angeles, CA

Mastered by Sarah Register

Brian Dunne - Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Additional piano and synth, All instruments on “Sometime After This”

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